"The Abomination" chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora, a young man born to a beautiful, emotionally distant Spanish mother and an austere English father. Adrift in a world of nameless one night stands, living in a London of suffocating hedonism he remembers his early years in Spain and sudden exile to boarding school in England where two proscribed love affairs set him on a course apart . . .
Paul Golding’s novel tells of an extraordinary life lived in innocence, then in alienation, defiance and anger. It is one of the most outstanding literary debuts of recent years.
